Improvement in sash-cord guides



T.VAN WAGONERJ Sash-Cord Guide.

No. 222,967. Patented Dec. 23. I879.

N-PETERS, FHOTOLITHOGRAPHKR, WASHINGTON. C,

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

THOMAS VAN WAGONER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SASH-CORD GUlDES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,967, dated December23, 1879 5 applicatioufiled September 11, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS VAN WAG- ONER, of Newark, county of Essex,and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSashOord Guides, which invention is fully described in the followingspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 shows my guide, partly in side view and partly insection. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to certain improvements upon the sash-cord guidesfor which Letters Patent were granted to me April 16, 1.878, numbered202,492; and the object of the present invention is to furnish asash-cord guide which is cheaper of construction and possesses much morepractical utility than those constructed according to my aforesaidpatent.

To this end my invention consists in a castmetal pulley-casing havingembedded in the rear portion of each of its ends, during the process ofcasting, a flexible sheet-metal strip of suflicient length to be bentaround the angle of the inner edge of the mortise in the windowjamb, forsecuring said pulley-casing in position without the employment of screwsor other fastening devices.

Referring to the drawings, the letter A indicates a pulley-casing whichis cast in a single piece, with beveled end projections, 71 b, and eachend of said casing has embedded in it, during the process of casting thesame, a projecting flexible flat sheet-metal strip, 0, which is of asufficient length to be bent around the inner angle or corner of themortise in the window-jamb, whereby, when the casing is adjusted inposition in the mortise, the said sheet-metal strips serve to secure thecasing in place without the employment of screws or other fasteningdevices.

The beveled end projections, b1), serve as stops to limit and determinethe insertion of the casing in the mortise, and the easin g is otherwiseformed without the usual flange.

By the described construction of east-metal casing having thesheet-metal strips 0 embedded in its rear portion at the upper and lowerends, I am enabled to furnish a sashcord pulley-guide embodying in itsconstruction the strips for securing it in place at a much less cost andpossessing much more practical utility than the sash-cord guidesconstructed according to my aforesaid Letters Patent.

(last-metal pulley-casings in a single piece have been heretofore made;but in all such screw-holes have to be drilled in end flanges forsecuring them in place, which I obviate by my invention; and a sash-cordguide has been made in two parts, in which the face-plate has beenseparate from the casing and provided with rearwardly-projecting lugscast in the upper and lower ends of the same, said lugs being turneddown to overlap the edges of a casing which carries the pulley, theobject being to afl'ord a means of connecting the faceplate andpulley-case, and such constructions are hereby disclaimed.

A sash-cord guide constructed according to my present invention embodiesthe manifest advantages of a cast-metal pulley-casing in a single piecewith the sheet-metal strips for confining it in place, which I considerof great practical utility over the sash-cord guide patented by me, ashereinbefore mentioned.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is i A sash-cordpulley-casing cast in a single piece, with end projections, b, andhaving embedded in each of its ends, during the process of casting suchcasing, a rectangular flexible strip of sheet metal of sufficient lengthto be bent around the inner angle of the mortise in awindow-jamb,substantially as de scribed.

In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal this 8th day of September, 1879.

THOMAS VAN VVAGONER.

Witnesses:

WALTER F. HARRIS, W. HAUFF.

